| chancellery | (noun) a government building housing the office of a chancellor | - |
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| chancellor | (noun) the person who is head of government (in several countries) | Synonyms: premier, prime minister |
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| (noun) the honorary or titular head of a university | - |
| chancellorship | (noun) the office of chancellor | - |
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| chancery | (noun) an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records | - |
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| (noun) a court with jurisdiction in equity | Synonyms: court of chancery |
| chemiluminescence | (noun) luminescence resulting from a chemical reaction as the oxidation of luciferin in fireflies | - |
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| chiromance | (verb) divine by reading someone's palms | - |
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| chiromancer | (noun) fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms | Synonyms: palmist, palmister |
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| circumference | (noun) the size of something as given by the distance around it | Synonyms: perimeter |
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| (noun) the length of the closed curve of a circle | - |
| (noun) the boundary line encompassing an area or object | Synonyms: circuit |
| circumstance | (noun) information that should be kept in mind when making a decision | Synonyms: condition, consideration |
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| (noun) formal ceremony about important occasions | - |
| (noun) a condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity | - |
| (noun) the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event | Synonyms: context, setting |
| circumstances | (noun) a person's financial situation (good or bad) | - |
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| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: destiny, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
| clairvoyance | (noun) apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses | Synonyms: E.S.P., ESP, extrasensory perception, second sight |
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| clarence | (noun) a closed carriage with four wheels and seats for four passengers | - |
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| clearance | (noun) permission to proceed | - |
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| (noun) the distance by which one thing clears another; the space between them | - |
| (noun) vertical space available to allow easy passage under something | Synonyms: headroom, headway |
| coalescence | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination |
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| coexistence | (noun) existing peacefully together | - |
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| cognisance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| cognizance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognisance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| (noun) range of what one can know or understand | Synonyms: ken |
| (noun) range or scope of what is perceived | - |
| coherence | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherency |
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| (noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness |
| coincidence | (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, concurrence, conjunction |
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| (noun) the quality of occupying the same position or area in space | - |
| (noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: happenstance |
| coinsurance | (noun) insurance issued jointly by two or more underwriters | - |
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| comeupance | (noun) an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved and fitting | Synonyms: comeuppance, just deserts, poetic justice |
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| comeuppance | (noun) an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved and fitting | Synonyms: comeupance, just deserts, poetic justice |
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| commence | (verb) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action | Synonyms: begin, get, get down, set about, set out, start, start out |
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| (verb) set in motion, cause to start | Synonyms: begin, lead off, start |
| (verb) get off the ground | Synonyms: embark on, start, start up |
| commencement | (noun) the act of starting something | Synonyms: beginning, start |
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| (noun) an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred | Synonyms: commencement ceremony, commencement exercise, graduation, graduation exercise |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| competence | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competency |
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| complacence | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacency, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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| complaisance | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: compliance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
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| compliance | (noun) the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another | Synonyms: submission |
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| (noun) acting according to certain accepted standards | Synonyms: abidance, conformation, conformity |
| (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
| conceal | (verb) hold back; keep from being perceived by others | Synonyms: hold back, hold in |
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| (verb) prevent from being seen or discovered | Synonyms: hide |
| concealed | (adjective) hidden on any grounds for any motive | - |
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| (adjective) not accessible to view | Synonyms: hidden, out of sight |
| concealing | (adjective) covering or hiding | - |
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| (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealment, hiding |
| concealment | (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealing, hiding |
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| (noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: cover, covert, screen |
| (noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: privacy, privateness, secrecy |
| concede | (verb) admit (to a wrongdoing) | Synonyms: confess, profess |
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| (verb) be willing to concede | Synonyms: grant, yield |
| (verb) acknowledge defeat | - |
| (verb) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | Synonyms: cede, grant, yield |
| conceding | (noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: concession, yielding |
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| conceit | (noun) the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride | Synonyms: conceitedness, vanity |
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| (noun) a witty or ingenious turn of phrase | - |
| (noun) an artistic device or effect | - |
| (noun) an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things | - |
| (noun) feelings of excessive pride | Synonyms: amour propre, self-love, vanity |
| conceited | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, swollen, vain |
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| conceitedly | (adverb) with conceit; in a conceited manner | Synonyms: self-conceitedly |
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| conceitedness | (noun) the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride | Synonyms: conceit, vanity |
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| conceivability | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivableness |
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| conceivable | (adjective) capable of being imagined | Synonyms: imaginable |
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| conceivableness | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivability |
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| conceivably | (adverb) within the realm of possibility | - |
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| conceive | (verb) become pregnant; undergo conception | - |
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| (verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: believe, consider, think |
| (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceptualise, conceptualize, gestate |
| conceiver | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: mastermind, originator |
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| concenter | (verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concentre, focalise, focalize, focus |
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| concentrate | (noun) a concentrated example of something | - |
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| (noun) a concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water | - |
| (noun) the desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore | Synonyms: dressed ore |
| (verb) cook until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, reduce |
| (verb) make denser, stronger, or purer | - |
| (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralise, centralize |
| (verb) be cooked until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, decoct, reduce |
| (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: condense, digest |
| (verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: condense, contract |
| (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, focus, pore, rivet |
| (verb) draw together or meet in one common center | - |
| concentrated | (adjective) gathered together or made less diffuse | - |
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| (adjective) (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source | Synonyms: hard |
| (adjective) being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance | Synonyms: saturated |
| (adjective) intensely focused | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to a solution whose dilution has been reduced | - |
| concentration | (noun) strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material | - |
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| (noun) bringing together military forces | - |
| (noun) great and constant diligence and attention | Synonyms: assiduity, assiduousness |
| (noun) the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume | - |
| (noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: compactness, denseness, density, tightness |
| (noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: absorption, engrossment, immersion |
| (noun) increase in density | - |
| concentre | (verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, focalise, focalize, focus |
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| concentric | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentrical, homocentric |
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| concentrical | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentric, homocentric |
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| concentricity | (noun) the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another) | - |
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| concept | (noun) an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | Synonyms: conception, construct |
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| conception | (noun) the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon | - |
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| (noun) an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | Synonyms: concept, construct |
| (noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: design, excogitation, innovation, invention |
| (noun) the event that occurred at the beginning of something | Synonyms: creation |
| conceptional | (adjective) being of the nature of a notion or concept | Synonyms: ideational, notional |
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| conceptive | (adjective) capable of conceiving | Synonyms: impregnable |
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| conceptual | (adjective) being or characterized by concepts or their formation | - |
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| conceptualisation | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualization, formulation |
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| (noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptuality, conceptualization |
| conceptualise | (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceive, conceptualize, gestate |
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| conceptualism | (noun) the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application | - |
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| conceptualistic | (adjective) involving or characteristic of conceptualism | - |
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| conceptuality | (noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptualization |
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| conceptualization | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualisation, formulation |
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| (noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptuality |
| conceptualize | (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceive, conceptualise, gestate |
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| conceptually | (adverb) in a conceptual manner | - |
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| conceptus | (noun) an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life | Synonyms: embryo, fertilized egg |
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| concern | (noun) something that interests you because it is important or affects you | - |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: headache, vexation, worry |
| (noun) a feeling of sympathy for someone or something | - |
| (noun) an anxious feeling | Synonyms: care, fear |
| (noun) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | Synonyms: business, business concern, business organisation, business organization |
| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, have to do with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on |
| (verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: interest, occupy, worry |
| concerned | (adjective) feeling or showing worry or solicitude | - |
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| (adjective) involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in | Synonyms: interested |
| (adjective) culpably involved | Synonyms: implicated |
| concernedly | (adverb) in a manner showing concern | - |
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| concert | (noun) a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging | - |
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| (verb) settle by agreement | - |
| (verb) contrive (a plan) by mutual agreement | - |
| concerted | (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: conjunct, conjunctive, cooperative, united |
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| concertina | (noun) free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds | - |
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| (noun) coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle | - |
| (verb) collapse like a concertina | - |
| concertinist | (noun) a person who plays the concertina | - |
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| concertise | (verb) give concerts; perform in concerts | Synonyms: concertize |
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| concertize | (verb) give concerts; perform in concerts | Synonyms: concertise |
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| concerto | (noun) a composition for orchestra and a soloist | - |
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| concession | (noun) a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business | Synonyms: grant |
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| (noun) a point conceded or yielded | - |
| (noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: conceding, yielding |
| concessionaire | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessioner |
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| concessioner | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessionaire |
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| concessive | (adjective) of or pertaining to concession | - |
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| concomitance | (noun) occurrence or existence together or in connection with one another | - |
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| concordance | (noun) an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts | - |
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| (noun) agreement of opinions | Synonyms: concord, harmony |
| (noun) a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole | Synonyms: concord, harmony |
| concupiscence | (noun) a desire for sexual intimacy | Synonyms: eros, physical attraction, sexual desire |
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| concurrence | (noun) acting together, as agents or circumstances or events | Synonyms: concurrency |
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| (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, coincidence, conjunction |
| (noun) agreement of results or opinions | Synonyms: concurrency |
| (noun) a state of cooperation | Synonyms: meeting of minds |
| condolence | (noun) an expression of sympathy with another's grief | Synonyms: commiseration |
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| conductance | (noun) a material's capacity to conduct electricity; measured as the reciprocal of electrical resistance | - |
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| conference | (noun) a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic | Synonyms: group discussion |
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| (noun) a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda) | - |
| (noun) an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members | Synonyms: league |
| confidence | (noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: assurance, authority, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
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| (noun) a secret that is confided or entrusted to another | - |
| (noun) a feeling of trust (in someone or something) | - |
| (noun) a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable | - |
| (noun) a trustful relationship | Synonyms: trust |
| confluence | (noun) a flowing together | Synonyms: conflux, merging |
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| (noun) a coming together of people | Synonyms: concourse |
| (noun) a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers) | Synonyms: meeting |
| conformance | (noun) correspondence in form or appearance | Synonyms: conformity |
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| congruence | (noun) the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate | Synonyms: congruity, congruousness |
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| connivance | (noun) agreement on a secret plot | Synonyms: collusion |
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| (noun) (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing | Synonyms: secret approval, tacit consent |
| conscience | (noun) conformity to one's own sense of right conduct | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of shame when you do something immoral | - |
| (noun) motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions | Synonyms: moral sense, scruples, sense of right and wrong |
| conscienceless | (adjective) lacking a conscience | Synonyms: unconscionable |
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| consequence | (noun) having important effects or influence | Synonyms: import, moment |
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| (noun) the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual | Synonyms: aftermath |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot |
| consistence | (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistency, substance |
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| (noun) a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts | Synonyms: consistency |
| consonance | (noun) the property of sounding harmonious | Synonyms: harmoniousness |
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| (noun) the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words | Synonyms: consonant rhyme |
| continence | (noun) the exercise of self constraint in sexual matters | Synonyms: continency |
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| (noun) voluntary control over urinary and fecal discharge | - |
| contingence | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingency, eventuality |
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| continuance | (noun) the act of continuing an activity without interruption | Synonyms: continuation |
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| (noun) the property of enduring or continuing in time | Synonyms: duration |
| (noun) the period of time during which something continues | Synonyms: duration |